Folding wall-mounted ironing board



Nov. 24 1925. 1,563,044

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l atented Nov. 2 1i, i923 EARL V. SANDERS, OF PA'W'NEE, ILLINOIS.

FOLDING- WALL-MO'UNTED IRONING BOARD.

Application filed June 9,

To aZZ whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that l, EARL V. SANDERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pawnee, in the county of Sangamon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Wal lriounted Ironing Boards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ironing boards of the type that is adapted to be secured to a wall in a COllVlElllGl'li] place for ordinary use in the household.

Some the purposes of this invention, therefore, are to provide an economical, and simple ironing board that may be detachably secured to a kitchen wall, or a laundry wall, by a hinged connection, which will enable the party using it to very quickly, and conveniently set it up in a normally operating position, and as conveniently fold it up and let it hang against the wall in a vertical position, when not in use.

A further object of my invention is to provide an ironing board that when in practical use will have a tendency to be more stable than the usual ironing board. It is a well known fact among people who use ironing boards, that many ironing boards that are secured to the wall, or set up independent of he wall, have a tendency to be wobbly when in use. Hence, the need for a device that will eliminate a big percent of the wobbling. The device of my invention accomplishes this result;

The desired objects of my inventionare attained by the ironing board described in the annexed specification, recited in the claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which like reference numerals indicate the same structural parts in the several figures.

Fig. 1 is a perspective of the ironing board of my invention, picturing the same with the observers eye below the level of the ironing board.

Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the board in operating position.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. d is a' front view of the ironing board of my invention as it would appear when folded against the wall with stiffening bar 4, and legs 9, laid into correct position when not in use.

Figure 5 is a drawing of the bolt supironing 1923. Serial No. 644,462.

porting the stiffening bar for the two folding sections of the top of the 1ron1ng board. Figure 6 is a perspective of the stlfienlng bar supporting the two folding sections of the top of the ironing board.

Figure 7 is a perspective of a connecting hook adapted to space the leg supports of the ironing board at a predetermined distance apart.

Figure 8 is a PPI'SPQCtlVG of one of the two leg supports for the ironing board.

Figure 9 is a perspective of a hinge pin, adapted to be used in the hinge which secures the ironing board to the wall mounted hinge.

Figure 10 is a perspective of a bracket against which the supporting legs of the ironing board are to rest when in operating position.

The preferred embodiment of my invention, is illustrated in, the several figures above mentioned, and the desired means of operating this ironing board may be clearly understood, by carefully observing the figures given, as the operating instructions are read.

It will be borne in mind, that an ironing board to be handy, practical, convenient, easy to operate, and economical, should be made of a design that will permit it to be rigid when in use, and durable, so that it will stand a great deal of use. Attention is therefore called to the details of construction of this device, which are as follows:

As is shown in the respective positions in the several figures the ironing board proper, which would commonly be referred to as the surface on which clothing rests When being ironed, is made of two sections hingedly connected end to end, with a hinge secured to the bottom side of one end of the board, and adapted to be detachably secured to a wall hinge.

The opposite end of the ironing board proper being hingedly connected, end to end, with the first section is the free end, and means are provided for the rigid support of this end in unique and substantial manner.

It is a matter of common knowledge that some ironing boards are awkward to handle, and likely to be wobbly when in use. In addition to eliminating these difiiculties the object of my invention is to provide an ironing board that will fold neatly up against the wall, and be out of the way when not in normal use.

Referring to the numerals which indicate the detail structure of the several parts:

Numeral l is the free end of the ironing board proper, being hingedly connected by hinges; 3 with the wall mounted end 2 01' the ironing board.

i heu the ironing board is in normal use, and assembled in its working position the two folding sections of the board, are held more rigidly in a horizontal working position, by means of a stiffening loar 4:, which normally is detachably secured near the joint, between the two sections of the ironing hoard, in such a way as to rigidly reiniiiorce the two hinged sections of the ironing heard, when in normal use.

The leg supports for this ironing board, are designed to be adapted to fold up when not in use, and are therefore made in secrions hingedly connected, as is shown at numeral 12.

ii hen the ironing heard is assembled, tnese support legs, are straightened out, and are unfolded and held into a rigid alignment by means of hook 13, shown in the several figures.

A unique feature of this device is in the particularly practical arrangement of the support legs, in such a position as to eliminate all tendencies to wobble. F or instance the sup-porting legs when placed into operating position are mounted so that the upper ends of the legs 9 and 9, lit into brackets 8, and the lower ends are positioned downward, in a laterally diverging direction, and rest against the line of intersection 17 0]": the wall and floor, as observed in the several '1 "ores. Tlhese support legs are hooked together near the middle of their length, to more rigidly secure them into a pre-determined lateral relative position.

Numeral 5 is a hinge pin for detachably assembling the sections of wall mounted hinge l5 and 16 respectively.

Numeral 6 is the bolt, and 7 the winged nut used to rigidly secure stiffening bar l in its nor nal operating position.

Numeral 8 is a bracket used as a stop device tor the support legs.

Numerals 5"; and 5 respectively, are the loldalile supporting legs.

Ix unieral 10, a connecting hook for spac ing the diverging supporting legs.

Numeral 11 is a screw eye to which the connecting hook 10 is fastened when in normal use.

fi'unieral i2 is a hinge which forms the hinged joint in the folding sections of the supporting legs.

if un'leral 13 is a hook for securely holding the supporting legs in a rigid position when in use.

Numeral is a cross slot used to admit lJOlt 6 when assembling stiii cning bar 4, into or rating position.

Having thus described the nature of my invention what I claim as new and useful.

. are to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a device of the character described, the combination of a hingedly folding wall ir ning hoard, with a centrally posed stiliening bar, detachahly secured near the hinged joint in said ironing board,

d hingedly jointed supporting legs, normally positioned divergingly downward, ard adaptet to rest against the line of the wz. d floor intersection, means provided securely spacing said diverging support in a predetermined relative position, further provided in a detachable "e pin, for optionally dismounting said on on the wall. in witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 29th day of May, A. D.

EARL V. SANDER-S. [n.s] 

